Island Park 2011

This year for our Tanner Family Island Park/winter trip we crammed all 9 adults and 8 kids in one cabin and had a lot of fun, did a lot of skiing, sledding, cave making, and EATING!

A typical lunch line up!


Rex in his new toy that took a long time to blow up and a short time to pop, Liz pulling a sleepy little Jack!


Nate and I took our kids out, plus Cole, skiing/sledding through the falling snow in the woods behind the cabin. It was a little cold but very pretty!


We encountered some familiar faces along the trail. Paul and JoAnn heading in while we were heading out.


Baylee was a good sport, we got carried away and went a little farther than planned. She cried a little at the end of our excursion then fell asleep, what a cutie!

The kids and I were pooped when we got back, but Nate went out sledding and got a TON of great shots. I had to post all the sequence of people crashing down the hill!

Here's Cole:

He got a little turned around, but did ok!

Here's Rex:


The facial expressions are the best!
Then D.J.:

Maybe the face full of powder shots are the best!?

Liz and Rex together:


Now my favorite shots, Tanner's face at the end is priceless!:



Cute lash-cycles!!

Although our car got a cracked windshield and a broken belt that we barely made it home on, it didn't get rammed by a moose like David and Acacia's last year, so it could have been worse. We made it home with only 2 pukies, Nate and D.J., one planned car repair, but a lot of fun memories!

Happy Birthday Cody!

First Nate took Cody on the Tanner Family annual New Years Day x-country ski trip by North Fork:


Here's a good wipe-out shot of Uncle D.J. trying to ski down a steep hill.


Then on the seventh Cody turned 6! I made him a paleontologist cake, complete with dinosaur bones (pretzel pieces dipped in white chocolate) buried in the mud/dirt, (cake/pudding) and a clay figurine of him digging them out, in front of a volcano spelling out his name in red cool whip lava, he loved it!


One more milestone, Baylee's first pigtails:

SOOO cute, and so hard to get out!